A Pragmatic Analysis of Sayyida Zaynab 's (peace be upon her) Speech at Yazid's Court

Abstract

Pragmatics is a branch of linguistics that deals with explaining the difference and relation between the meanings of words and the intended meanings by the speaker. It deals with context of situation and meanings in speech that are not addressed using semantics. This branch studies the various determinants related to linguistic exchange in relation to context and situation as two basic conditions for the manner in which communication and the production of meaning occur between language users in their communicative relations, indicatively and directly, since linguistic communication is not based solely on linguistic competence, but rather there are a set of non-linguistic conditions that intervene in determining linguistic performance. Pragmatics is the field that is concerned with the study of speech acts, communicative implication and entailment, in relation with the fields of philosophy of language, argumentative logic, and discourse analysis.

                                  The study  considers   a pragmatic  analysis to analyze  Sayyida Zaynab's  speech according to persuasion ,Implicature  and Speech Acts in which we can learn how   her language  underpinning the rhetorical style  that inherent from her father (Master of rhetoricians ) AL-Immam Ali bin Abi Talib .